5 Training Tweaks To Get More Quads Growth On Leg Day!

5 training tweaks to put extra emphasis on your front thighs

Depending on your personal view of pain, leg day is either a necessary day that just plain sucks or relished because, well, it hurts. What isn’t up for debate is the idea that leg day has to follow a basic template that hits all the major lower-body muscle groups about equally.

That is, you can selectively emphasise particular areas—say, the quads, which you may want to bring up—by making some important choice over the course of your leg workout. In fact, alternating a leg workout that focuses on the quads with one that hits the glutes and hamstrings harder is one way to build greater overall lower-body thickness than following a single leg workout.

How do you turn up the heat on the quads? Let’s take a look at some easy ways; just don’t expect that exchanging squats for leg extensions is your ticket to larger front thigh mass!

Tweak 5

Do a pre-exhaust workout for quads. While normally you start with multi-joint exercises and finish with single joint, by flipping the formula, you can get the quads highly fatigued (by doing leg extensions) first.

Now do your squats. Sure you’ll have to back off the load, but the quads will now be working overtime and you’ll guarantee that the set will end because of quad fatigue, not another muscle group.